Things You Didn't Know about the Internet
1. The first and oldest registered domain name on the internet is symbolics.com. It’s still live and exists largely as a historic site. 2. The urban legend (and/or long-running joke) aside, Al Gore didn’t invent the internet. No one person or even small group can claim they did. However, Gore is recognized as perhaps having done more than any other elected official to support the development of the internet from the 1970s to the '90s. 3. There are more than 275 million registered domain names. 4. The Web currently contains more than 4.7 billion webpages. 5. In 1995, less than 1% of the world’s population could get online. Today, about 40% of us have an internet connection. 6. The country with the largest percentage of its population connected to the internet is Bermuda, with 97.75% going online. That’s followed by Qatar (96.65%), Bahrain (96.53%), Iceland (96.5%) and Norway (96.15%). 7. Here in Canada, 92.89% of us can access the internet. 8. Approximately 3...